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The Social Etiquette of Sleep: Some Sociological Reflections and ObservationsUniversity of Warwick, s.j.williams{at}warwick.ac.uk This ar ticle provides a critical examination of the seemingly counter-intuitive sociological notion of the `social etiquette of sleep': the socially appropriate and inappropriate, prescriptive and proscriptive, ways of'doing'sleeping, that is to say, in ever yday/night life. The first par t of the ar ticle provides a brief discussion of the rationale for a sociological engagement with sleep. The remaining sections then proceed to a detailed sociological account of the `civilizing' of sleep, the social uses and abuses of sleep, the socially attentive sleeper, the inconsiderate or selfish sleeper, and the anarchic, anomic, deviant or stigmatized sleeper. The ar ticle closes with some fur ther sociological reflections on these dormative/normative matters.A sociological engagement with sleep, it concludes, is far from a contradiction in terms.
Key Words: bedroom • body • deviance • etiquette • manners • public/private • sleep • stigma
Sociology, Vol. 41, No. 2,
313-328 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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